Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-01-14
General l1eps.
DOM e SIG.


call to Rome.
1t is declared that 5000 criminals are at
large in New York city because there
are not facilities for trying the rogues.
Herbert F. Beecher, son of Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher, has been appointed a
special agent of the treasury by Secretary
Manning.
The ship Harvey Mills foundered in
the Pacific December H. and three of her
crew, the only survivors, have Just reach
ed land.
John Roach, the noted shipbuilder.
dled at New York. Monday, of cancer of
the tongue. lie was a native of Ireland.
but came to this country when a boy.
Dynamite was exploded the other night
beneath one of the cable street car tracks
III san Francisco, probably by fellows
who were engaged in the recent strike
and riot.
n New York policeman was found of
his beat Saturday night by a brother
officer, who threatened to report him and
was shot and mortally wounded by the
delinquent.
Princeton college is about to adopt
plan of college government somewhat
similar to that recently adopted at Har-
ward, which gives the students a voice
in the matter.
Owen Murphy, former New York
politician, who embezzled large sum
and fled to Canada. is soon to return.
having effected compromise, it is said
which will enable him to escape arrest
by the payment of $50 200.
1t is rumored at Washington that
James W. Reid, the North Carolina repre-
sentative whose resignation is now be-
fore the House, is a fugitive from Justice
and at present is in Canada. He owes
SD 200 part of which was embezzled from
his county while he was its treasurer.
The German ship Elizabeth, from
Bremen to Baltimore, went ashore off
Cape Henry and all hands were drowned.
as well as five men of the life saving
station in the attempt to rescue them.
Two of the life savers survived. The
vessel and cargo are lost and nearly 30
lives.
Isaac Sprague, the --living skeleton"
Is dead at Chicago He was born in
Bridgewater, Mass, and was quite
healthy until his 18th year, when he
caught cramp while in swimming, fell
sick and lost flesh until he weighed only
4G pounds. Barnum took him all over
the nited States, Canada and England.
He was married and the father of three
robust children.
Joseph Perry, aged -, and Robert
Price, 10. two miser cousins. living in
Philadelphia. had not been seen for over
week and Oh breaking into the house
Friday, the policeman found both of
them dead. Perry retired from an
auction firm 10 years ago with fortune
estimated at from 100000 TO S25O. 900.
which he invested in real estate. stocks.
bonds and mortgages. Price was car
penter. Both men were addicted to
liquor and it is thought that they were
frozen to death.
Joshua n. Doyle has just been arrested
at Nashville, Tenn, for shooting and
killing Nicholas Dausch, German bar
Der. at dillingham;, ILL.,, May -, 1856.
Doyle was Il schoOl-teacher and killed
Dausch in a saloon without provocatiou.
He was Immediately arrested and was
Jr 4, md;
high against him. and it was with much
difficulty that Sheriff IIumes prevented
a lynching. In the Jail with him were
five other mnrderers under sentence of
death, and all these, on the night of June
l3> 1866, made their escape by means of
false keys and by saving bars. Doyle's
is the first arrest of any of these escaped
Innrderers.
\ bundle of bloody clothing was found
between Lexington and Lincoln. Mass,
the other day; Farmer Brooks discover
Ell near the place the head of IA man, and
other parts of body. The head was ter
ribly gashed and distorted, and had evil
IDENTIFY been chopped from the body with
a dull AK \ naked mutilated trunk was
discovered near wall beside n road
about mile from where the head was
found. 1t was subsequently learned
that the remains were those of of Geo. b.
Goldman, Somervlle milkman. His IL
year-old hired boy confessed that he
stabbed his employer in the stable, cut
up the body so that he could get it into
a sleigh, and, driving out through Lex
ington and Lincoln, threw the pieces
away. The motive of the murder was
money, Goldman had been collecting